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has been found on are Asteracantha longifolia, Nees., and a species of 



Barleria. 



55. Junonia orithya, Linn. (Plate A, fig. 4 $, 4a 9)- — Male upperside ; 

 somewhat more than half forewing from base velvety black, apical half dull 

 fuliginous ; cell area with or without two short transverse orange bars ; a blue 

 patch above the tornus ; the outer margin of the basal black area obliquely 

 zigzag in a line from the middle of costa to the middle of vein 3, thence straight, 

 then incurved to middle of dorsal margin ; just outside it, between veins 2 and 

 3, a large ocellus, often obscure and surrounded by a margin of the basal black 

 area, sometimes prominently ringed with orange yellow. Beyond basal black 

 area is a broad, white, irregularly oblique, discal band followed by a short, oblique, 

 preapical bar from costa ; a small black orange-ringed ocellus beneath the 

 bar ; a subterminal continuous line of white spots in the interspaces and ter- 

 minal jfct-black, slender line, appearing double in some specimens; cilia alternately 

 dusky black and white. Hindwing blue-shaded with velvety black towards the 

 base; a postdis'-al black and white or blue and white-centred orange, black-ringed 

 ocellus in interspace 2 ; another, minutely white-centred or not, similar to 

 this or completely black, round or oval, sometimes completely wanting, in inter- 

 space 5 ; the termen narrowly white bordered inside by a black line limiting the 

 blue area and traversed by a slender black line parallel to the black termen ; 

 cilia white. Underside forewing : basal half with three black-edged, sinuous 

 broad, ochraceous-orange transverse bands, followed by a pale discal band ; 

 ocelli, preapical bar, subterminal and terminal markings, much as on the upper- 

 side ; the discal band margined inwardly by a broad, black angulated line, which 

 follows the outline of the black area of the upperside, here replaced by pale 

 grey, Hindwing irrorated with dusky scales on a greyish ground, crossed by 

 transverse subbasal and discal, slender, zigzag, brown lines and a postdiscal dark 

 shade on which are placed the two ocelli as on the upperside ; and sometimes a 

 black dot in each interspace 3 and 4; subterminal and terminal faint brown lines 

 and a brownish short streak tipped black at the tornal angle below the lower 

 ocellus. Female similar, with similar but more clearly defined, larger ocelli and 

 markings ; the basal half of wings on the upperaide fulliginous brown, the blue 

 on hindwing sometimes obsolescent, though this is only found in 'specimens 

 from dry regions, those from places of heavy rainfall always having the blue 

 developed. Antennae brown, the upper surface white in the males ; head 

 reddish brown, thorax and abdomen above black ; palpi, thorax and abdomen 

 beneath dull white. Exp. 49-62mm. 



Larva. — The caterpillar is of the same type as the rest of the genus. Head 

 roundish, bilobed, each lobe surmounted by a short, equilateral, conical 

 tubercle, the two diverging ; surface shiny, covered with small, white, truncated- 

 conical tubercles from each of which arises a curved, shiny, black, rather 

 long, stout hair ; the lobe-vertex tubercles, have lateral spinules or bristles; 

 clypeus of ordinary size, triangular, with the apical third orange ; basal 

 antennal joint light, second joint black ; colour of head otherwise black. 



